DESIGN BRIEF: Pune fusion had to solve a different translation problem than the village bicycle — here the subject is motion through a hill city, not a static side-profile errand run. Diagonal-flow symmetry was the layout fix: the cyclist cuts left-to-right on a hatched road band while the dupatta trail and forward lean sell speed without perspective vanishing points that break Mithila flat grammar. Bharni carries the hero — kurta, bicycle frame, palace walls, temple dome — in vermillion and turmeric ochre flat fills bounded by lampblack double outlines; Kachni owns the sky bands, hill slope hatching, and water register so the cream ground never reads empty under bhitti-chitra rules. I placed a Shaniwar Wada–inspired palace on the hill crest because Pune's cycle culture and its Maratha fort skyline are inseparable in local memory — the architecture simplifies to dome-and-arch folk silhouette rather than photographic masonry. What we dropped: number plates, brand logos, traffic signals, realistic wheel perspective. What we kept legible: spoke radiating lines, wicker basket flowers, dupatta polka-dot motion, and the fish swimming beneath the road — matsya re-anchors a petrol-era commute inside Mithila water-and-abundance symbolism. Corner bird and lotus-bud border are threshold guardians, not Pune tourism clip art.